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Fact Magazine Now reading: Meet Jun Yokoyama, the Japanese exchange student documenting... Jun Yokoyama’s story is pretty special. All the photos you see below were taken during Jun’s student exchange studies in London this year. While in London, Jun studied Sociology at the University of London and purchased his first ever camera in May 2015. It’s been non-stop shooting ever since, and when his v
Bleep lives right at the heartcore of Energy Flash, my history of rave culture. It was the first uniquely British twist on house and techno. Rave had started out as that strange thing, a subculture based almost entirely around import records. In 1988-89, DJs had several years backlog of house classics to spin, plus fresh imports from Chicago, Detroit and New York each week; the homegrown tracks, m
Fact Magazine Now reading: What the hell is going on with SoundCloud? Update, August 27 2015: PRS for Music announced today that it will take legal action against SoundCloud on the behalf of its members’ royalties. In an email sent out to PRS members, the body explains that “after careful consideration, and following five years of unsuccessful negotiations, we now find ourselves in a situation whe
Like it or not, trip-hop is a thing. I say this as someone who, for the past 18 odd years, has loved the music just as much as I’ve hated the term. Coined in June 1994 by Andy Pemberton in a feature for Mixmag, trip-hop was used to describe the recent stylistic shift of the Mo’ Wax label and that music’s popularity in dance circles, particularly in after hours sessions. Pemberton heralded trip-hop
After years of hype, we’ll soon be able to get our hands on Oculus Rift. The home virtual reality system was officially launched yesterday (June 11), and it’ll be available to the public in the first few months of 2016. Yesterday’s press conference sold it primarily as a device for gamers, shipped with an Xbox One controller – and that’s who’ll be buying it to begin with. However, it’s clearly aim
Video games and music have always gone hand in hand. But what are the greatest examples of this marriage? From Nintendo 8-bit classics to stirring cinematic scores that have accompanied modern masterpieces like Red Dead Redemption and The Last Of Us, here’s our ultimate guide to the best ever video game OSTs. Ordering decades’ worth of timeless video game soundtracks into a definitive top 100 requ
Fact Magazine Now reading: The 12 best affordable, pocket-sized, hackable synthesizers Hardware synths are smaller, cheaper and more flexible than ever. Scott Wilson picks the best pocket-sized, affordable and hackable synths synths on the market for experienced studio heads and beginners alike. As computers gradually replaced hardware synths towards the end of the last century, it seemed as if ou
Few artists hold as firm an influence on electronic and technology-based musics as Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their reach spreads from the charts to the deepest corners of the underground, influencing hip-hop, numerous strains of dance music culture, and even the world’s shiniest pop tunes. Formed in 1978 by songwriter, bassist, and singer Haruomi Hosono, the original aim of YMO was to releas
Aphex Twin has hired a programmer to make him a unique piece of music software based on mutation Aphex Twin only gave a handful of interviews around the release of Syro, his first album in 13 years, and the last of that handful has now been made available online. Speaking to German magazine Groove, Aphex responds to a series of 25 questions from former Groove cover artists, including DJ Koze and R
Unveiling the first in our trundling parade of end-of-year features – the best reissues of 2014. FACT’s monthly reissue column has spent the last 12 months cherry-picking the best archival releases on the market in 2014, from luxuriant box sets to remastered club trax – and excavated all sorts of buried treasure in the process. This year, we’ve decided to whittle our picks down to a manageable Top
We originally posted Ed DMX’s list of the 20 greatest acid house tunes in 2009, but after Roland teased the return of the TB-303 it seemed timely to bring it back – and the tracks sound just as brilliant today. I’ve always had a problem with genres; I usually fail to grasp what it is that distinguishes one from the next. It took months for me to understand that hardcore rave was different to techn
Terrible news: storied Leeds producer Mark Bell has died. As The Black Dog have confirmed on Twitter, the producer has passed on, although full details of his death have yet to emerge. A former teenage breakdancer, Bell was one half of seminal Warp Records act LFO – one of the most important of the ‘bleep-n-bass’ acts to emerge from the North of England in the early 1990s, and the group behind the
Head here to stream the list as a single YouTube playlist. Nobody ever wanted to call it IDM. Braindance, electronica, bleep techno – anything was better than the US-centric (and still awkwardly disparaging) ‘intelligent dance music’, but over time the term has stuck. We can thank early ‘90s mailing list the IDM List for the awful acronym. The list was used as a platform to discuss a growing set o
Fact Magazine Now reading: The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors? Casual accounts of the history of electronic music tend to point back to familiar sources: Suicide’s babble’n’hum; Cluster, Klaus Schulze and the rest of the Krautrock squad; the stygian mulch-music of early Cabaret Voltaire
King Tubby and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry likely had no idea exactly what kind of legacy they were crafting as they piped their production stems through a dusty multi-channel mixer and a rack of effects. Since those early reggae ‘dubs’ (so called because they were bounced straight to tape), the innovative effect-laden tracks have served as a source of influence for a plethora of malcontented musicians si
Originally posted on The Vinyl Factory. To mark the passing of Swiss artist and record cover designer H.R. Giger, The Vinyl Factory looks at 20 of his most iconic sleeves. Immortalised in in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi epic Alien for which he and his team won an academy award, Hans Rudolf Giger’s robo-organic (or as he called them, ‘biomechanical’) hybrids have placed him among the most instantly r
DJ David Morales has shared a letter from Barack and Michelle Obama to the friends and family of Frankie Knuckles. Considered the godfather of house music, Knuckles died earlier this month. Morales, whose Def Mix agency represented Knuckles, posted a scan of the Obamas’ letter on his Facebook page [below]. Barack served in Chicago, Knuckles’ hometown, for many years, and has met the DJ before [see
The Godfather of House Music was 59 years old. Sad news: legendary house DJ Frankie Knuckles has reportedly passed away, with both DJ Deeon and Paul Johnson confirming the news. Knuckles was born in The Bronx in 1955 and began DJing in New York in the ’70s with Larry Levan. After moving to Chicago in 1977 he played at the famed Warehouse and then his own club, The Power Plant. He remained an integ
Rare is the musician who reaches the third decade of their career before deciding to strike out alone, but Damon Albarn‘s constant work rate since finding fame with Blur in the early ’90s means he’s simply been too busy to get around to his debut solo record until now. After conquering the charts with Blur and Gorillaz, the past decade has seen Albarn turn his attention to Africa, absorbing the mu
FACT mix 425: Peanut Butter Wolf’s 24-Hour Valentine’s Day Mix 11 years ago The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November 3 weeks ago Es Devlin: Screenshare 2 months ago Interview: Jeremy Deller 3 months ago Patch Notes: Atomised Listening 4 months ago Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA 5 months ago Interview: Tschabalala Self 5 months ago Interview: Freeka Tet 6 months ago The Vi
The Grammys: Daft Punk, Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, and Stevie Wonder play greatest hits medley Too much of a good thing? As promised, Daft Punk was joined on stage by Stevie Wonder, Nile Rodgers, and Pharrell Williams at the Grammy Awards ceremony. Backed by Random Access Memories session musicians on a mock-studio set, the esteemed group performed Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ (with a bit of ‘Harder, Bett
Illustration by Alex Solman Skip to: #50 / #40 / #30 / #20 / #10 or view the selection as a single page text list – without audio, images, or write-ups – here. In 2013, album lists aren’t just best-to-worst rundowns – they’re ways of demarcating what an “album” is (or isn’t) in the first place. Is a mini-album a full-length or an extended single? Should a clutch of Soundcloud demos be judged along
HomeFeaturesFeaturesListsTop SliderSentimental Things: The story of UK Dance Music from 2000-2009 in 100 records (Part 4: 2006-2007) Skip to: 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 2000-2009 was a hell of a decade for UK dance music, and the way the world works now renders it practically impossible that we’ll have one like it again. That isn’t nostalgia, it’s a simple fact. The 20
The FACT Dictionary: How dubstep, juke, cloud rap and other genres got their names Balderdash and DatPiffle. “Language is the dress of thought”, wrote Samuel Johnson – and, like any ethical shopper, sometimes you want to investigate exactly where your dress came from. The music fan’s dictionary is full of unlikely and strange little tags: some (witch house, wonky) have always been ridiculous; othe
Skip to: #100 / #90 / #80 / #70 / #60 / #50 / #40 / #30 / #20 / #10, or view the selection as a single page text list – without audio, images, write-ups or guest blurbs – here. Like this? You can read FACT’s rundown of the 100 Best Albums of the 1990s here. Last year, FACT counted down our 100 favourite albums of the 1990s – a years-in-the-making effort that, we thought, was about as tough as unde
Fact Magazine Now reading: From the archives: The 20 Best Japrock Records, by Julian Cope From 2003-2008, FACT operated as a bi-monthly print magazine. As part of a new From The Archives feature, we’ll be regularly uploading vintage articles from FACT’s ink-and-paper days. Following Peter Shapiro’s guide to the remarkable Arthur Russell, we’ve dug out a real treat from 2007: the 20 best Japanese r
A good techno album, much like a good man or woman, is hard to find. That it’s difficult to translate dance music into the realm of the full-length is undeniable, but the truth is that techno isn’t like most dance music. To paraphrase Derrick May, the beats are an afterthought. Techno is head music as much as body music, and for the right producer, the space and time afforded by an LP’s runtime pr
Artists’ Best of 2012 #2: Starkey, FaltyDL, Supreme Cuts, Bok Bok & Tri Angle To accompany FACT’s own Best of 2012 features, we asked some of our favourite artists what their highlights of the year were. We’ll be rolling their answers out across the coming days. You can read yesterday’s selections here. Bok Bok Tracks I Enjoyed Playing In The Club In 2012 (in no order): – JAM CITY – ‘How We Relate
Kraftwerk/Neu! producer Conny Plank compiled and remixed in new box set Next week will mark 25 years since the untimely death of much-mythologized German producer Conny Plank. Plank was a famously venturesome producer, importing elements of dub and novel multi-track technologies into the European musical idiom. Following on from an early association with electronic pioneers Cluster, Plank worked a
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